DokkDrawsさんのイラストまとめ

Another russian aircraft shot down over Ukraine

Even in the 1980s Iraq-Iran war, Saddam Hussein rejected the "Iranian Religion" and called them shu‘ubiya—a term originally applied to converts who resisted Arab claims of islamic primacy.

There is something about these cycles of extinction, the reemergence of the same niches and the equally constant filling of all these niches in similar but different ways, that i cannot put into words. It is all so orderly.

I am in awe.

Divine Intervention (wind conveniently blowing out a burning fuse) saved a castle in germany from demolition by napoleonic troops, according to folk tales

The roman empire initially struggled with this as the overstretched empire was increasingly unable to do so, most elites coming from Italy or Rome itself.
This system simply did not produce enough talented people to efficiently run the provincial empire.

While Inca also made use of Bronze or Gold ornaments, they preferred colourful cloth, for comparison

@Paracelsus1092 Related:
Mexico was fighting its own version of the Indian Wars, and remarkably, they were losing!
"The Mexicans do our farming", an appache proverb betrays their success at raiding the mexican settlers.

Perhaps the reason Mexico allowed American settlers to enter the region.

@Paracelsus1092 This centuries-spanning process had many similarities to the north-american colonisation.

Some of my favourite artists are probably Wayne Barlowe, @cmkosemen, Albrech Dürer and Edmund Dulac.

Earlier wars often were comparatively short and frivolous, an easy way for anyone to see the world, go on an adventure and do some good as well.

While not always the truth, wars were often perceived to be heroic adventures, far away, and relatively small.